Re: Receipt Generation Service

2012-03-28 Thread ianG
On 29/03/12 04:54 AM, Raymond Forbes wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, We are in the process of defining and review the process we use for generating and revoking receipts. This is a complicated process that involves signing with a Hardware Security Module. Are you

Re: Receipt Generation Service

2012-03-28 Thread Mike Hanson
I have revised the wiki page [1] with: 1. A more detailed assessment of the "captured signing key" threat, including a breakdown of the theft-detected and theft-not-detected scenario. 2. A first cut at revocation and receipt-reissuance, which would be required when a signing key theft is detect

Re: Receipt Generation Service

2012-03-28 Thread Mike Hanson
They're in the text, just not wikified. I'll fix it. m On Mar 28, 2012, at 1:21 PM, Michael Coates wrote: > There is a reference in the wiki to appendices. Can we add those? > > -Michael > > On 3/28/12 10:54 AM, Raymond Forbes wrote: >> Hello, >> >> We are in the process of defining and revi

Re: Receipt Generation Service

2012-03-28 Thread John Nagle
Interesting. Could this service be used to simply sign timestamps, to solve the provenance problem in web content? The idea is to be able to prove that a given piece of content existed at a specific time. A public signing service which accepts a hash value, and returns a signed item with

Re: Receipt Generation Service

2012-03-28 Thread Michael Coates
There is a reference in the wiki to appendices. Can we add those? -Michael On 3/28/12 10:54 AM, Raymond Forbes wrote: > Hello, > > We are in the process of defining and review the process we use > for generating and revoking receipts. This is a complicated > process that involves signing with a

Receipt Generation Service

2012-03-28 Thread Raymond Forbes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, We are in the process of defining and review the process we use for generating and revoking receipts. This is a complicated process that involves signing with a Hardware Security Module. Please take a look at the spec that we have so far and

Re: Fixing SSL quickly

2012-03-28 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:29:29 -0700 John Nagle wrote: > How can a free CA afford to validate its customers? > Check out startssl.com. It's only a few cpu cycles to certify a domain via email or html file which is the only unforgeable level of cert. Yes security of the key needs to be paid for

Re: Restricting which CAs can issue certs for which hostnames

2012-03-28 Thread Rob Stradling
On 28/03/12 02:40, John Nagle wrote: On 9/2/2011 11:42 PM, Daniel Veditz wrote: On 8/31/11 3:52 PM, Hill, Brad wrote: Mozilla could add a certificate it controls to the trusted root store with which it cross-signs other CA certs, adding a nameConstraints in the process, yes? In theory. In pra